Eric Gélinas

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Eric Gélinas
Date of birth May 8, 1991
place of birth Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size 193 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
number # 44
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 2nd round, 54th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2007-2009 Lewiston MAINEiacs
2009-2011 Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
2011 Saint John Sea Dogs
2011-2013 Albany Devils
2013-2016 New Jersey Devils
2016-2017 Colorado Avalanche
2017-2018 Rocket de Laval
2018-2019 HC Slovan Bratislava
since 2019 Rögle BK

Éric Gélinas (born May 8, 1991 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Rögle BK in the Svenska Hockeyligan since February 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

youth

Éric Gélinas was born in Vanier , a district of the Canadian capital Ottawa , into a baseball family. His father, Marc Gélinas, played, among others, for the Buffalo Bisons in the minor league baseball , and his brother, Karl Gélinas, is a baseball player and was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2003 . Karl, however, played ice hockey first when he was a child, so Eric did the same from the age of four.

After Éric Gélinas moved with the family to Montreal at the age of seven , he attended the Collège Charles-Lemoyne , a private high school , with whose ice hockey team he was active in the junior sector. In the 2007 entry draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), one of the three highest Canadian junior leagues, the Lewiston MAINEiacs selected him in 16th position. He quickly established himself with the MAINEiacs and was the team's top defender in his second year. Through these achievements, the Central Scouting Service led him to 39th place among the most promising outfield players in North America for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2009 ; In addition, through this classification, he also took part in the CHL Top Prospects Game . In the actual draft, the New Jersey Devils then selected him in 54th position.

The following season 2009/10 Gélinas spent only half at the MAINEiacs and moved in winter 2010 to league rivals Saguenéens de Chicoutimi . This change was also due to the looming end of the MAINEiacs, who had already tried to move to another city since January 2009 due to financial difficulties; this did not materialize, so that the team was finally disbanded in May 2011. Gélinas finished the season in Chicoutimi and came in 28 remaining games on 12 scorer points. At the end of the season, he signed a three-year entry level contract with the New Jersey Devils, but remained in the LHJMQ for the time being.

In the following season he scored 24 scorer points in 35 games by January 2011 - although at that time only five teams had scored fewer points in the league than the Saguenéens. In January Gélinas then moved to the leader of the league, the Saint John Sea Dogs . With the Sea Dogs, he won the Coupe du Président as master of the LMHMQ at the end of the season and then the Memorial Cup 2011 , in which one could prevail against the champions of the two other top Canadian junior leagues.

New Jersey Devils

After these successes, the defender switched to the New Jersey Devils system and spent the entire 2011/12 season with the Albany Devils in the American Hockey League . There he scored 16 goals in 75 games, with which he (together with Clay Wilson ) was the most dangerous defender. This positive development was countered by a fracture of the lower jaw in October 2012 , which Gélinas suffered from a puck in a preparatory game; he was out for two months. After spending the rest of the season with the Albany Devils again, he was called up to the NHL squad in April 2014, making his National Hockey League debut on the penultimate day of the regular season .

In the following season 2013/14 Gélinas was for the first time mainly in the NHL in action, came in 60 games on 29 scorer points and was after Marek Židlický and Andy Greene the third best defender of the Devils in this category.

Colorado and Laval

In February 2016, Gélinas was signed by the Colorado Avalanche , which in return sent a third-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft to New Jersey. He left the organization of the Devils after almost six years and 156 completed NHL missions. The Canadian was in the service of the Avalanche until the summer of 2017, before his expiring contract was not renewed. In August he finally received a trial contract with the Canadiens de Montréal , in which he was not permanently engaged. Instead, he signed a one-year contract with their AHL farm team, the Rocket de Laval .

In August 2018 he joined the HC Slovan Bratislava from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) and played there until February 2019. He then left the KHL club and moved to Rögle BK in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2007/08 Lewiston MAINEiacs LHJMQ 54 3 16 19th -1 34 5 0 0 0 +3 2
2008/09 Lewiston MAINEiacs LHJMQ 67 10 29 39 –9 80 4th 0 1 1 –6 12
2009/10 Lewiston MAINEiacs LHJMQ 33 3 16 19th -12 33 - - - - - -
2009/10 Saguenéens de Chicoutimi LHJMQ 28 3 9 12 -22 26th 6th 1 4th 5 +1 6th
2010/11 Saguenéens de Chicoutimi LHJMQ 35 9 15th 24 -10 41 - - - - - -
2010/11 Saint John Sea Dogs LHJMQ 27 3 17th 20th +25 26th 19th 5 7th 12 +10 25th
2011 Saint John Sea Dogs Memorial Cup 4th 0 1 1 +4 4th
2011/12 Albany Devils AHL 75 16 21st 37 ± 0 55 - - - - - -
2012/13 Albany Devils AHL 57 6th 16 22nd +1 46 - - - - - -
2012/13 New Jersey Devils NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2013/14 Albany Devils AHL 13 1 4th 5 +6 10 4th 0 1 1 -1 0
2013/14 New Jersey Devils NHL 60 7th 22nd 29 -3 22nd - - - - - -
2014/15 New Jersey Devils NHL 61 6th 13 19th -2 42 - - - - - -
2015/16 New Jersey Devils NHL 34 1 5 6th -8th 16 - - - - - -
2015/16 Colorado Avalanche NHL 6th 0 0 0 +2 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Colorado Avalanche NHL 27 0 1 1 -4 12 - - - - - -
2016/17 San Antonio Rampage AHL 27 3 9 12 -22 14th - - - - - -
2017/18 Rocket de Laval AHL 64 13 13 26th -24 52 - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 244 31 102 133 -29 240 34 6th 12 18th +8 45
AHL total 236 39 63 102 -39 177 4th 0 1 1 -1 0
NHL overall 189 14th 41 55 -16 92 - - - - - -

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Éric Gélinas is not related to the former NHL professional and current coach Martin Gélinas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com: Draft Prospect on Éric Gélinas (English, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  2. ↑ mainehockeymedia.com: "Gelinas signs with Devils" ( Memento from August 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (English, May 20, 2010, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b c Profile Gélinas' on hockeysfuture.com (English, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  4. ↑ rds.ca: "Gélinas à Saint John, Clarke à Bathurst" (French, January 5, 2011, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  5. ↑ theahl.com: Statistics on top scorers (defenders) of the 2011/12 season (English, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  6. ↑ nj.com: "Devils' Eric Gelinas hopes to make NHL debut in one of last two games" (English, April 24, 2013, accessed August 4, 2014)
  7. ↑ nj.com: "Devils' Eric Gelinas was nervous but impressive in NHL debut" (English, April 25, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2014)
  8. ^ Avalanche Acquires Gelinas From New Jersey. avalanche.nhl.com, February 29, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gélinas, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gelinas, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario , Canada